Her books, according to people who’ve read them I’ve seen talking about this, are shallow. Forcing a bunch of students to read shallow fiction AND listen to the author give a highly paid speech is horseshit. It’s college. They should be reading something challenging.

It makes sense. It really is a long grind to level an alt up to 120. The level scaling has helped, but it’s still a serious grind. If you’ve played every expansion multiple times what are you really getting out of it?

Pretty sure paper comes in multiple colors. If no one needs to explain the issue to you, why didn’t you buy different paper? 

100% pedantic and I freely admit it, but FYI generally you shouldn’t capitalize “al-” in Arabic names/titles. It’s just a definite marker, it’s not really a separate word. Probably doesn’t come up as often in video game journalism as some other subfields of journalism so completely understandable not to know. 

Sometimes there’s local grants for houses that old, for things like insulation/weather-proofing and stuff. A friend of mine lives in a dilapidated poorly constructed house and took advantage of one two years ago, and it seems to have made a difference (we still wear coats inside but now the wood stove does heat things…

I’ve been in a lull where I don’t really play for a month or two and was about to get back into it when Blizzard decided to dance for an authoritarian government. So I haven’t. 

To the idiot who just suggested my position is akin to Nazi-apologia; there is absolutely no honest comparison between saying we should consider the role captive media plays in misinforming citizens of authoritarian regimes and apologizing for modern neo-Nazis who absolutely choose their belief system and seek out…

That’s certainly important context. I could be way off the mark here, at least regarding him, though my larger point is we need to be careful immediately judging people who may have been pushed into a position where being misinformed isn’t entirely their fault.

There are plenty of people born and raised in the US, or Germany, or other states with free media, who consume mostly conspiratorial and/or heavily biased media. It’s not uncommon for people to stick to pro-government media even after moving, the habit has been built. That’s why authoritarian regimes do it. If you…

I’m a bit torn on this. On one hand, that’s a gross statement and the blind support for violent nationalism is definitely at odds with their values. The only thing that makes me pause is that he might not be very well informed. Turkey’s media is almost entirely captured by Erdogan. Independent outlets have been bought…

“Snarky takes on the news” is a lot of fun, but I do think generally they published an article on a topic a fair bit after the story had broken, which means the traffic was probably a lot less. That’s not a criticism of any staff (I know how hard it is to toss out a passable article for breaking news) but it may be…

Four countries. Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Turkey. 

It’s worth noting this seems to come from the mind-vomit of Kurt Schlichter published at Townhall. This is another example of him parroting something he saw in far-right media.

I mean, Rooney isn’t a “minor” celebrity. Here in the US he’s not “wall-to-wall tabloid fodder” like he is in the UK, but a lot of people have brought him up to me since they know I’m a D.C. United fan. Unless that was more about the “influencer” part, but the sentence was a little unclear. 

I’ve had that happen a few times. Once the reply button completely disappeared, though I could see comments being posted by others. 

The responses to this post included show there’s plenty of other incredibly misinformed, ignorant, and racist people here who have only the shallowest knowledge of the conflict but think they’re qualified to lecture others on the complexity of international law and history. 

Gods spare me from charlatans. You can’t even spell his name and you’ve got an incredibly shallow understanding that boils down to a couple of bullet points you probably got handed on a bloody flyer.

Is this bastard really out of the greys, or is someone constantly pulling his vapid “I’m smarter than the dumb liberals on Splinter” posts out of the greys?

Lots of lies here, though to be fair you telegraphed them pretty obviously.

Yeah, the Israeli PR machine is incredible, and I say this as a strong critic of Israeli policies. The “they oppose Israel’s right to exist” line is a good example. There’s no such right! It doesn’t exist in international law. But prominent figures who should absolutely know better parrot that line uncritically. The…